100-Year McCain Has a Sadr Moment (As Does Joe Lieberman)

Posted by Blue Texan, Firedoglake at 11:12 AM on April 2, 2008.

St. McCain is quickly becoming the Miss Teen South Carolina of the GOP with yet still another Iraq gaffe.

Post Tools
EMAIL
PRINT
8 COMMENTS

Share and save this post:

AlterNet Social Networks:

Got a tip for a post?:
Email us | Anonymous form

PEEK RSS Feed

Main AlterNet RSS Feed

St. McCain is quickly becoming the Lauren Caitlin Upton of the GOP with yet still another Iraq gaffe:

In an interview with CNN earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that he has long understood the influence of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr:

I said he was still major player and his influence is going to have to be reduced and gradually eliminated.

But in a report on The Situation Room today, the network noted that just two weeks ago McCain -- trying to paint a rosy picture of Iraq -- described Sadr very differently while speaking to CNN's John King in Baghdad:

His [Sadr's] influence has been on the wane for a long time.

Yikes.

Meanwhile, Joe Lieberman, pimping his BFF on Fixed News, seems to be equally confused.

If we did what Sen. Obama wanted us to do last year, Al-Qaeda in Iran would be in control of Iraq today.

Apparently, St. McCain's cluelessness is contagious. It's only a matter of time before he starts putting a "the" before "Iran." I mean, Iraq.

Whatever.

Tagged as: iraq, lieberman, mccain, al-sadr

Blue Texan is a regular contributing blogger for FireDogLake.

Return to PEEK » Post Tools: EMAIL PRINT 8 COMMENTS PERMALINK

Also in PEEK
Beat the Pundits ... Here's the Afghanistan Speech, What Do You Think? Raw text here. Post by Staff. December 1, 2009.	Corporate Grinch: GE Threatens to Kill Christmas Rather than Negotiate with Workers in Good Faith All Tiny Tim wanted was to be a member of his local. Post by Joshua Holland. December 1, 2009.	Why Is Politico Coddling Dick Cheney Again? More softballs than summer camp. The Obama administration is understandably vexed. Post by Steve Benen. December 1, 2009.

You've chosen to turn comments off for the entire site. Would you like to turn them back on?

«	December 2009					»
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

Newsletter

PEEK archive by date:

Use » and « to view other months.

Search: